republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1148.md

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Bill	Confidentiality of birth and stillbirth records.	Provides that a registration or certificate of a birth or stillbirth is open to public inspection and copying upon the request of any person that occurs 99 years (instead of 75 years) after the record is created.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1148	Indiana HB 1148 (2025)	bill	HEALTH; Medical Records PUBLIC RECORDS	enacted	Gregory Porter Vaneta Becker	4	23	2	2025-01-08	2025-04-03	openstates	ocd-bill/3cdf934c-d349-44d3-9549-1b7de2f11e49	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1148	6e157e2359fa27af598d4f1efd3729fd751204b22a2ffefd79598cebb9173a06	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1148 (2025) — Confidentiality of birth and stillbirth records.

Provides that a registration or certificate of a birth or stillbirth is open to public inspection and copying upon the request of any person that occurs 99 years (instead of 75 years) after the record is created.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1148 - Porter - 3rd Reading — 91–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1148 - Becker - 3rd Reading — 45–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gregory Porter — primary (person)
• Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
• Brad Barrett — coauthor (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — cosponsor (person)
• La Keisha Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Liz Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Martin Carbaugh — coauthor (person)
• Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)
• Shelli Yoder — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-08 Authored by Representative Porter
• 2025-01-21 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-27 Representative Barrett added as coauthor
• 2025-01-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-28 Representative Carbaugh added as coauthor
• 2025-01-28 Cosponsors: Senators Jackson L and Charbonneau
• 2025-01-28 Senate sponsor: Senator Becker
• 2025-01-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 29: yeas 91, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-01-28 Representative Shackleford added as coauthor
• 2025-01-29 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-18 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-18 Senators Brown L and Yoder added as cosponsors
• 2025-03-18 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 257: yeas 45, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-21 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2025-03-20 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-24 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-03-25 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-03 Public Law 33 became-law
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3cdf934c-d349-44d3-9549-1b7de2f11e49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).